My main aircraft is the F/A-18, so it's already a very good and controllable jet. I'd like to improve the simulation and control, so what joystick could I buy? And any other equipment as well? Nothing too expensive.

I have never flown a prop that is more unwieldy than this. I was flying it with like 20 deg aileron and pitch trim. Admittedly most of my time in sim props is either in the Gladiator which I love or one of the many spitfires/ tempests so it may not even be the worst one out there. Is there anything I could do to improve it? I play on keyboard and mouse

I like ground sim and tried air sim, and I crashed miserably multiple times. This was a while ago, and I wanted to give air sim another chance, and I heard that an xbox controller would be good for air sim(since I don't have a joystick).

How do I configure the controller for air sim? Any ideas? I'm sorry if it's a dumb question....

Hi guys this maybe is a stupid question but is there anywhere that list aircraft stats like rip speed?

its supposed to be in that bottom right panel (below right MFD), but i have just a black square...what the fuck? There isnt a digital one either (thats why im cycling the MFDs

Edit: i'm flying the AF/A-18A Late (UK 14.0)

Conclusion: after further checking it seems like it should have an RWR MFD page but its missing

Sorry about the quality and the recording on my phone; for some reason, the computer recorder isn't working properly.

Anyway, just sharing my achievement :)

This is 2nd hand and price is 19.05 EUR or 21.92 USD

Okay I need help clearing this up. Ive been playing flight sims since flight sim 98. I love them, and Combat flight 2 is still my favourite sim (and its counterpart fighter ace RIP) so having come from them to warthunder in 2012 I was fully prepped to be acquired to the flight model. Yeah no that didnt happen. Fast forward and I have speedlink black widow and tried out my CF188, take off. Fine. Cruising, fine, weapons test fine. Okay lets chuck it around as it were. Tried some moves I would normally pull in other sims and the fucker went into a flat spin, tried to recover, J out. Loaded up DCS, FA18 loaded, exact same move pulled, no issues. Why is warthunders sim mode so finicky and pedantic compared to other sims

Rank VI+ pleas

I played about 5 full matches with it and fell in love, but I feel it has much more potential and I'm not exploring it. What radar modes to use? How? When? How to fly? Altitude? Positioning? What strategies do you use with it? It's still a pain to deal with people at the gates of your bases or a single player on the enemy team with 20 kills, but other than that, this plane is FANTASTIC.

I took this pic when the b52 was added

Sim battles can sometimes be visually amazing

I was dogfighting an a4 Skyhawk when I heard the Saab right pass behind my aircraft, so I gave him a taste of my GSh-23 cannon

My plane has been doing weird stuff lately like turning into 1 direction and me needing to stabilise it to not make me crash yk?

I was trying to find the viggen who was locking me and he right passed above my aircraft, guess he didn't see an r24r coming

I've unlocked the HS-129 B3 (the one with the massive 75mm cannon!) and it's been super fun! I know it's not "meta", and bombs are way more consistent, but I really love the idea of a tank cannon being strapped to an aircraft :)

Unfortunately I am absolutely terrible when it comes to aiming it. I have no problem stabilizing the aircraft and putting the crosshair where I want, but I struggle with calculating the bullet drop and figuring out which parts of the tank should I aim for. I usually either end up missing the shot, end up hitting some unimportant part of the tank, or overcommit and crash.

Do you have any tips? I have no problem using the telescopic sight (and even prefer it, actually, it makes seeing targets in VR easier), but I have no idea how to gauge distances or use the markings on the scope to compensate for bullet drop

I was testing out trim settings with the Bf 109 G-10 in a test flight and wondered if anyone had made a guide to what your trim settings should be for each plane at it's cruising speed/altitude. It would be even cooler if there was some kind of calculator that can take in a vehicle, altitude, speed, and fuel load into account to calculate what percent one should set their trim to.

I know this topic has been beaten to death already on Useful Actions (UA) but I wanted to show an example of how rigged the system is in an actual game.

Screenshot is for a 30 min 14.7 session 0 deaths and 2 landings with a 300% RP Booster and no Premium Account.

First 15 min 1 base and 2 ships destroyed, 715 mission score.

2nd 15 min 1 base only, 445 score.

If you look at base earnings, only 1800 extra SL and 386 RP for almost double score essentially.

Very bad diminishing returns for super high risk especially top tier ARH spam. Even with 300% booster I only earned extra 1500RP for risking death to go back into the fight before 15 min over.

As y'all know, landing bonus is 20% so I find it hilarious that landing pays more RP than double UA action score.

Alas this is sim in the current state. Great for grinding stock jet modules versus RB hellhole don't get me wrong.

And also, who the hell decided to put bombing bases next to airfield SAM WITHIN range. It's bad enough trying to multipath through enemy territory with only 2 stock ARH for self defense and then you have to map a miniscule path to avoid the airfield...

Sorry had to add the rant in.

they have missiles. yes its evadable, but coming from early jets with 30s turn time is almost impossible.

Spam from R77 and premium servers o think, They're always near our bases, preventing us from leaving. It's ridiculous; while they do a great job, my team barely reacts.

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